Late to the party, but for the record:
- The Rise & Fall of Adam and Eve, Stephen Greenblatt
- King of the World, Celia Fremlin
- Tombland, CJ Sansom
- Bad Feminist, Roxanne Gay
- The Long Shadow, Celia Fremlin
- Jog on, Bella Mackie
7. The Bookshop at 10 Curzon Street: Letters between Nancy Mitford and Hayworld Hill
- Viking Britain, Thomas Williams
- Reading Allowed, Chris Paling
10. I'd Rather Be Reading, Anne Bogel
11. My Life with Bob, Pamela Paul
12. Wasted Calories & Ruined Nights, Jay Raynor
13. The Other Side of Silence, Philip Kerr
14. Love Story with Murders, Harry Bingham
15. The Cactus, Sarah Haywood
16. Lizzie Siddal, Lucinda Hawksley
17. The Whites, Harry Brandt
18. My European Family: The first 54,000 Years, by Karin Bojs
19. I'll be There for You, Kelsey Miller
20. Prisoner's Base, Celia Fremlin
21. March Violets, Philip Kerr
22. A German Requiem, Philip Kerr
23. The Unexpected Joy of Being Single, Catherine Barber
24. The British: A Genetic Journey, Alistair Moffat
25. This is What Happened, Mick Herron
26. The Trouble-Makers, Celia Fremlin
27. Primate Change, Vybarr Cregan-Reid
28. Lab Rats, Dan Lyons
29. Wish you were here: England on Sea, Travis Elborough
30. The Wych Elm, Tana French
31. The Stranger Diaries, Elly Griffiths
32. So me, Graham Norton
33. The Sixth Extinction, Elizabeth Kolbert
34. With Bold Knife and Fork, MFK Fisher
35. How to Behave Badly in Renaissance Britain, Ruth Goodman
36. Coming Clean, Kimberley Rae Miller
37. Eternal Boy: The life of Kenneth Grahame
38. About Time Too, Penelope Mortimer
39. Their Finest Hour and a Half, Lissa Evans
40. The Wandering Vine, Nina Caplan
41. The Coddling of the American Mind, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
42. The New Poverty, Stephen Armstrong
43. One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli and the Great Stink of 1858
44. Dreaming in Chinese, Deborah Fellows
45. A Walk Along the Wall, Hunter Davies
46. To Love and Be Wise, Josephine Tey
47. Clothes, clothes, clothes, music, music, music, boys, boys, boys, Viv Albertine
48. When in French: Love in a Second Language, Lauren Collins
49. The Pale Criminal, Philip Kerr
50. Old Baggage, Lissa Evans
51. The Bellweather Revivals, Benjamin Wood
52. The Gentle Art of Tramping, Stephen Graham
53. Civilisation, Kenneth Clark
54. Close to Home, Cara Hunter
55. A House of Ghosts, W C Ryan
56. Seven Signs of Life, Aoife Abbey
57. The Importance of Being Aisling, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
58. A Sucky Love Story, Brittani Louise Taylor
59. In Search of England, by HV Morton
60 All the Single Ladies, Rebecca Taufner
61. Gene Eating Giles Yeo
62. The Temptation of Forgiveness, Donna Leon
63. Dawdling by the Danube, Eric Enfield
64. The Drop, Mick Herron
65. The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker
66. Cracked: Why Psychiatry is doing more harm than good, James Davies
67. The House on Vesper Sands, Paraic O'Donnell
68. Lethal White, Robert Gilbraith
69. Worse Case Scenario, Helen Fitzgerald
70. A Cure for Heartache, Mary Jane Grant
71. Greenbanks, Dorothy Whipple
72. Travels with Epicurus, Daniel Klein
73. My Sister the Serial Killer, Oyinkan Braithwaite
74. Herring in the Smoke, LC Tyler
75. No Way Out, Cara Hunter
76. The Secret Garden: Oxford Revisited, Justin Cartwright
77. Waterlog, Roger Deakin
78. This Thing of Darkness, Harry Thompson
79. Hard Pushed: A Midwife's Story, Leah Hazard
80. Queenie, Candice Carty-Williams
81. In the Dark, Cara Hunter
82. Why Mummy Doesn't Give a Fxxx, Gill Sims
83. Home Grown: How Domestic Violence Turns Men into Terrorists Joan Smith
84. In the Days of Rain, Rebecca Stott
85. How to Treat People, Molly Case
86. Duty Free, Mani Mohsin
87. The October Man, Ben Aaronovitch
88. The Heartland: Finding & Losing Schizophrenia, Nathan Filer
89. The Stone Circle, Elly Griffiths
90. The Trauma Cleaner, Sarah Krasnostein
91. Smallbone Deceased, Michael Gilbert
92. Those People, Louise Candlish
93. Lost Dog, Kate Spicer
94. The Cost of Living Deborah Levy
95. Flash Count Diary, Darcey Steinke
96. The Hoarder, Jess Kidd
97. The Passage, Justin Cronin
98. Things in Jars, Jess Kidd
99. The Twelve, Justin Cronin
100. The To-do List & Other Debacles, Amy Jones
101. As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Books & Birds, Alex Preston & Neil Gower
102. London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures, Ted Sandling
103. Joe Country, Mick Herron
104. On Chapel Sands, Laura Cumming
105. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, Steve Brusatte
106. The City of Mirrors, Justin Cronin
107. The Body Lies, Jo Baker
108. The Bad Mothers' Book Club, Keris Stanton
109. Behind the Chalet School, Helen McElland
110. Like a Tramp, Like a Pilgrim, Harry Bucknall
111. This is Shakespeare, Emma Smith
112. The Way, the Truth & the Dead, Francis Pryor
113. Seven Lean Years, Celia Fremlin
114. The Chalet School Revisited, Sheila Ray et al
115. Confessions of a Bookseller, Shaun Bythell
116. It's All in Your Head, Suzanne O'Sullivan
117. Fierce Bad Rabbits, Claire Pollard
118. Footnotes, Peter Fiennes
119. The Prison Doctor, Amanda Brown
120. The Dark Side of the Mind, Kerry Daynes
121. Fasting and Feasting: the Life of Visionary Food Writer, Patience Gray, Adam Federman
122. Meet me in the In-Between, Bella Pollen
123. The Warrior: A life of war in Anglo-Saxon Britain, Edoardo Albert and Paul Gething
124. A Knife to the Heart, Barbara Nadel
125. Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Toshikazu Kawaguchi
126. Station Eleven, Emily St John Mandel
127. The Scholar, Dervla McTiernan
128. A Half-Baked Idea, Olivia Potts
129. The Long Call, Ann Cleeves
130. Twas the Nightshift before Christmas, Adam Kay
131. Mudlarking, Lara Maiklen
132. Lowborn, Kerry Hudson
133. Rosewater, Tade Thompson
134. Ghostland, Edward Parnell
135. I must belong somewhere, Jonathan Dean
136. Gotta Get Theroux this, Louis Theroux
137. Time Song: Searching for Doggerland, Julia Blackburn
138. The Midnight Line, Lee Child
139. Civilized to Death: The Price of Progress, Christopher Ryan
140. Also Human: the Inner Lives of Doctors, Caroline Elton
141. Everything I know about Love, Dolly Alderton
142. I Never Said I Love You, Rhik Samadder
143. Patrick O'Brian: A Very Private Life, Nikolai Tolstoy
144. Food Fights and Culture Wars, Tom Nealon
145. The Other Wife, Claire McCowan
146. The Hunting Party, Lucy Foley
147. Once, Twice, Three Times an Aisling, Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen
148. Medieval Bodies, Jack Hartnell
149. Smoke and Mirrors, Mick Herron
150. Once Upon a River, Diane Setterfield
The last book was a good one to finish on - loved having heroes to cheer on and proper villains to boo. Also liked the Thames setting - brought back fond memories of walking the Thames Path a couple of years ago.
I've been stingy with the star ratings, but fiction-wise I enjoyed various dystopias (the Justin Cronin Passage trilogy, Station Eleven and Rosewater) and the pitch-black humour of Helen Fitzgerald's Worst Case Scenario. In non-fiction, I enjoyed reading about the healthcare profession, including mental health (notably Nathan Filer's The Heartland and Suzanne O'Sullivan's It's All in Your Head). There were some good books about writers (Fierce Bad Rabbits by Claire Pollard and Footnotes by Peter Fiennes) and some compelling memoirs (I'm singling out Rhik Samadder's I Never Said I Loved You). There was also some non-fiction where the authors won me over to their subject by sheer enthusiasm (The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, by Steve Brusatte, As Kingfishers Catch Fire, by Alex Preston and London in Fragments, by Ted Sandling).
My stats are approximate as I don't know everyone's gender and ethnicity, but I read just over half female writers, just over half non-fiction, and just over half library (all on about 58%). Happy with those. Less pleased that I managed about 6% BAME authors and a feeble two books in translation.
Now over to the 2020 thread!